Walter Dick

Infobox Football biography
playername= Walter Dick


fullname = Walter Dick
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date|1905|9|20
cityofbirth = Kirkintilloch
countryofbirth = Scotland
dateofdeath = death date and age|1989|7|24|1905|9|20
cityofdeath = Lafayette, California
countryofdeath = United States
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position = Forward
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1922-1923
1923-1924
1924-1928
1928-1931
1931-1937
1937-
clubs = Armadale
Niagara Falls Rangers
Providence Clamdiggers
→ Providence Gold Bugs
→ Fall River F.C.
Pawtucket Rangers
Kearny Scots-Americans
caps(goals) =
77 (10)
72 (11)
14 0(0)
20 0(1)
nationalyears = 1934
nationalteam = United States
nationalcaps(goals) = 01 0(0)
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Walter Dick (born September 20, 1905 in Kirkintilloch, Scotland; died July 24, 1989 in Lafayette, California) was a U.S. soccer forward who was a member of the He was a member of the U.S. national team at the 1934 FIFA World Cup. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Professional career

Dick began his professional career with Armadale F.C. in the Scottish Football League. In 1923, at the age of seventeen, he moved to the United States, settling in Niagara Falls, New York. When he arrived, he immediately began playing with the Niagara Falls Rangers. The manager of the Providence Clamdiggers of the American Soccer League spotted Dick playing for Rangers and offered him a contract. Dick went on to play six seasons with Providence between 1924 and 1930. However, in 1928, the team changed its name to the Providence Gold Bugs. By 1930, the ravages of the Great Depression and the "Soccer Wars" had begun to take their toll on the ASL and teams began to fold, move and merge. In 1930, a group of businessmen led by Harold Brittan bought the team, and moved the team to Fall River, Massachusetts where it spent most of the 1930-1931 ASL season as Fall River F.C.. When Fall River merged with the New Bedford Whalers during the spring of 1931, Dick moved to the Pawtucket Rangers. The Rangers left the ASL in the fall of 1932 as the league began to collapse, but joined the newly formed second American Soccer League in the fall of 1933. In 1934 and 1935, the Rangers went to the National Challenge Cup, only to fall to Stix, Baer and Fuller F.C. in 1934 and the same team, only renamed St. Louis Central Breweries F.C. in 1935. ^{[http://www.rsssf.com/tablesu/usacuphist.html]} In 1937, he joined the Kearny Scots-Americans and remained with the team through the 1941 season. During that span, Kearny won five league championships.

National team

In 1934, Dick earned one cap with the U.S. national team at the 1934 FIFA World Cup. In that game, the U.S. lost to Italy in the first round of the cup. ^{[http://www.rsssf.com/tablesu/usa-intres-det69.html]}

Dick was inducted into the New England Soccer Hall of Fame in 1985 ^{[http://neshof.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/inductees.htm]} and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1989.

External links

* [http://www.soccerhall.org/famers/walter_dick.htm National Soccer Hall of Fame profile]